Q1 Insights: 4 High-Impact Foresight Resources to Explore

• Amy Webb’s presentation at SXSW is always worth your time for in-depth, honest and insightful thinking about the future. Her company’s 2025 tech report is also out. Fair warning, it's long, but there is an executive summary. 

• Sitra consistently produces useful resources for productively thinking about the future. Their weak signals guide is practical and easy to put to good use. 

• We are living in times where dystopia rules the conversation and optimism is often hard to come by. Futurist Karl Scroeder’s concept of earned optimism, as discussed in fellow futurist Nikolas Badminton’s podcast interview, is a great way to move towards more optimistic thinking about the future. Bonus points: If you’re into sci fi, check out his book Stealing Worlds where he applies this important concept. While this is an older production, we keep revisiting it and think you should too!

• Joanna Lepore’s podcast Looking Outside is one of our favorites. Amazing guests, an inspiring breadth of expertise and thoughtful, interesting content mean we learn something every time. One of our favorites is her discussion with Michael Clark exploring the future possibilities around data.